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Young Heifers calving - what would you do
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<blockquote data-quote="msscamp" data-source="post: 583884" data-attributes="member: 539"><p>I'm really sorry that this happened to you - it isn't fair and it sucks. The bottom line is that it happens to every cattle producer at one time or another, and it usually has nothing whatsoever with what the producer is doing or not doing. If you're going to raise them, you're going to lose them - and that includes the fact that sometimes it will be en masse. We lost the vast majority of our calf crop quite a number of years ago - I think I was around 11 years old, so that would make it about 38 years ago - due to moldy sweet clover in alfalfa hay. Several years later - I was 17, maybe 18 at that time - we lost the vast majority of our calf crop due to 'death scours' (I now know that 'death scours' are caused by cryptosporidium). The first time there was nothing we could do except watch them keel over and die. The second time we figured out pretty damn quick that it was infectious, we sprayed with bleach, we kept the calving mothers out of the barn, we moved first time heifers to a different pen as far away from the infected site as possible, we did everything we could think of - it didn't make one bit of difference. **** happens! What is important is what the producer does with that ****, how he/she handles it, and where he/she goes from there. I'm not sure this post makes sense (it's been a bit of long day around here), but you can either play the victim, or you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps and carry on in a lifestyle you love - but I know you cannot do both.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="msscamp, post: 583884, member: 539"] I'm really sorry that this happened to you - it isn't fair and it sucks. The bottom line is that it happens to every cattle producer at one time or another, and it usually has nothing whatsoever with what the producer is doing or not doing. If you're going to raise them, you're going to lose them - and that includes the fact that sometimes it will be en masse. We lost the vast majority of our calf crop quite a number of years ago - I think I was around 11 years old, so that would make it about 38 years ago - due to moldy sweet clover in alfalfa hay. Several years later - I was 17, maybe 18 at that time - we lost the vast majority of our calf crop due to 'death scours' (I now know that 'death scours' are caused by cryptosporidium). The first time there was nothing we could do except watch them keel over and die. The second time we figured out pretty damn quick that it was infectious, we sprayed with bleach, we kept the calving mothers out of the barn, we moved first time heifers to a different pen as far away from the infected site as possible, we did everything we could think of - it didn't make one bit of difference. **** happens! What is important is what the producer does with that ****, how he/she handles it, and where he/she goes from there. I'm not sure this post makes sense (it's been a bit of long day around here), but you can either play the victim, or you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps and carry on in a lifestyle you love - but I know you cannot do both. [/QUOTE]
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